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FD on November 16

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Hello everybody: a challenging shoot with difficult conditions resulted in only one image of not great quality :evil:

Temperature around 34 degrees, some strong wind and poor seeing. You can see active region 2752 and some very short filaments.

I was thinking: why am I doing this in these conditions ? :lol:

Hope you had better weather.

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Re: FD on November 16

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A very nice result Franco despite the bad seeing.
Did you use the Lunt 50mm?


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Re: FD on November 16

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Maurits: you are very kind. It was actually done with the Solarmax90 Double Stacked. That gives you an idea of the conditions.

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Franco, seeing is hit and miss at the best of times, at least you caught the AR .The dark spots to the west look interesting, well done .

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Re: FD on November 16

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Just above freezing, in the wind.... must be mad :). Solar is about sunshine and warmth, maybe a glass of wine in the garden...

You'll be doing this dark sky stuff next at 3:00am, Franco.

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Franco:
You got an image in poor conditions.
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Hi Franco,

Good, here is just clouds clouds and couds with rain. Unusual for my area this time of the year.

:bow


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Hi Franco...

Nice to see you got an image in the poor conditions :bow

We had the raw SE winds here all weekend, did some imaging both days but didn't quite make it to your balmy high :lol: Saturday was about -7C and today was -4C while out at the scope. With the long stretches of low activity we have to take every opportunity to catch some sun.

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Re: FD on November 16

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Thank you Martin, Stu, Eric, Rainer and Brian for your comments. @Stu: deep sky astrophotography is not for me. I really like observing at night but staying up hours fiddling with equipment is not my thing. I tried it once and then went solar. @Brian: you are a brave man. At -7 degrees you will find me snuggled in bed rather than with the telescope. :)

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Very nice, Franco. Braving the elements and returning with a trophy. I haven't seen the Sun since the transit.

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I read your comment 'why am I doing this' and thought, I think think that most of the time :lol: particularly during the transit last Monday trying to shield the PST from horizontal gale force wind and hail for a hour and half in a car park. But you got a lovely picture :hamster: wine and warm weather will come again :)

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Nice catch, Franco. I waited 2 hours for the clouds to clear on 16 Nov 19 and gave up. It cleared 2 hours after that. The following day I got some average images. Hence I am always happy to get something, even poor quality images.

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Thank you Phil, Alexandra and Alfred for your encouragement !

Franco :)


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Missed this, nice disk Franco!


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